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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Colonel give to Lupe to give to her teacher?
(a) A small box.
(b) A card.
(c) An apple.
(d) A book.

2. When the Gomez family arrives in California, what do they learn about their daughter Sophia?
(a) She is alive and living in California.
(b) She did die at sea.
(c) She made it to California but died soon after.
(d) She is alive and is in Montana.

3. Why does the first owner sell the spring?
(a) He has to move back to his home country.
(b) The nuggets are depleted.
(c) The war makes it too dangerous.
(d) He does not sell it. It is stolen.

4. On the day they are scheduled to blast the location where they located their gold, what does Victoriano forget and have to go back home to retrieve?
(a) The flint to start off the dynamite.
(b) The lunches for the men.
(c) The map to the exact location where the gold is.
(d) The dynamite.

5. Victoriano is badly beaten after trying to defend what from the bandits?
(a) A food he has just hunted.
(b) His sister.
(c) The gold his family has collected.
(d) His dog.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is most of the good firewood found?

2. What does Juan realize as he goes to carry the wood back to the city?

3. How do Dona Guadalupe and her children make money?

4. What is Lupe's initial reaction when she learns of Mark's strong desire to marry her?

5. Why is Victoriano looking through the discarded ore for gold?

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